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Category: Festivals/Events
Published on Wednesday, 09 September 2015 21:42
Written by TheBeerNut

The Bull & Castle in Dublin is running a two-month long autumn festival for all of September and October. A range of special and seasonal beers will be available on rotation during the event including, appropriately enough, Eight Degrees Ochtoberfest Bock, one of the stars of the 2015 Irish Craft Beer Festival at the RDS. There will also be a new beer from local outfit Five Lamps, a Dark IPA of 6.9% ABV.

And there'll be a selection of infused spirits, cocktails and something called an Orange & Nutmeg Bourbon Hot Chocolate. BUT the real action is at the handpump. On the cask roster is:

Rascal's Wunderbar German IPA (6% ABV)

Rascal's Big Hop Red (5% ABV)

Dungarvan Seaweed Saison (6.5% ABV)

The latter of these, a collaboration brew with Norwegian craft beer pioneers Nøgne Ø, went down a storm at the RDS and has been in very short supply around the country. A cask in Dublin is a coup; €4.50 a pint makes it unmissable.

All beers are available for a limited time while stocks last. Click here to see the full festival menu and keep an eye on the Bull & Castle's Twitter and Facebook for updates on what's on when.

Category: Festivals/Events
Published on Tuesday, 25 August 2015 22:33
Written by TheBeerNut

The Irish Craft Beer Festival 2015 is almost here. For three days, dozens of breweries and hundreds of beers will be taking over the RDS in Dublin, alongside whiskey, cider, food, music and debate. It's the perfect opportunity to explore Irish craft beer under one roof, and try beers from breweries you've never met before.

But there's also the chance to taste one-off and rare beers not usually available at all. We've decided to compile this list of the specials we know about to whet your appetite ahead of the festival. It's not complete, it may not even be accurate, but it should get your mouth watering.

Category: Articles
Published on Tuesday, 09 June 2015 13:58
Written by Saruman

This weekend saw the first Killarney Beer Festival take place at the magnificent INEC. Beoir was heavily involved in getting it set up and primarily in running the Killarney Beer Awards as well as educational talks and tasting sessions.

For the awards, we invited 6 international judges from around the world to complement our own experienced judges. Five of these judges were EBCU delegates and are official judges in other EBCU endorsed competitions.

Each category had a senior judge assigned who had the deciding vote where a deadlock occurred.

Those senior judges were:

André Brunnsberg - Finland - EBCU

Theo Flissebaalje - Netherlands - EBCU

Carl Kins - Belgium - EBCU

Jos Brouwer - Netherlands - EBCU

Des De Moor - UK - CAMRA, Beer Writer & Judge

Tom Coughlin - USA - BJCP judge for 10 years

Our Beoir judges were:

Andrew Moore

Steve Lamond

Sara Breitenfeldt

Kevin Walsh

Giacomo Rizzo

Reuben Gray

Thomas Carroll

Brendan Murphy

The most important people on the day were the stewards of course. Kellie Dawson was the lead steward and ensured the judging went smoothly and that we were unaware of what beer we were judging so we could remain impartial. Stewarding on the day was Meg Coughlin and Hilary Gray as well as a member of the INEC staff to act as a runner for beer coming in pitchers from draught.

Each beer that achieved a certain score was awarded a certificate of gold, silver or bronze and that list is being compiled at the moment. Expect more details to follow. For now, here are the best of category winners and the overall best in show.

The Beoir: Champion Beer of Ireland went to James Brown Brews for their Chocolate Orange Stout. This was brewed at the Brú Brewery in Trim.

First Runner Up: Kinnegar - Black Bucket

Second Runner Up: O Brother - The Chancer

The best in show was made up of the top 3 out of all the 1st places each category. These were decided by our international judges in order to maintain complete impartiality as these judges were tasting the beers for the first time that day and couldn't be influenced in their decision making by any recognition of what they were tasting.

Pale Ale -

1st - O Brother Brewing - The Chancer

2nd - Kinnegar Brewing - Scraggy Bay

3rd - Killarney Brewing - Scarlett Pimpernel IPA

Dark Ales -

1st - Torc Brewing - Torc Amber Ale

2nd - St Mels - Brown Ale

3rd - O Brother Brewing - The Fixer

Lager -

1st - Trouble Brewing - Remix

2nd - Carrig Brewing - Pilsner Lager

3rd - Jack Codys - Puck Pilsner

Stouts and Porters -

1st - James Brown Brews - Chocolate Orange Stout

2nd - Jack Cody - Hail Glorious St Patrick Stout

3rd - Kinnegar Brewing - YannaRoddy Stout

Speciality -

1st - Kinnegar Brewing - Blackbucket

2nd - 9 White Deer - Black Lightning IPA

3rd - Black Donkey - Buck It

Belgian -

1st - Hillstown Brewery - Spitting Llama

2nd - Black Donkey - Sheep Stealer

3rd - Kinnegar Brewing - Swingletree Belgian

Wheat -

1st - Elbow Lane - Arrow Weisse

2nd - Hillstown Brewery - Goats Butt

3rd - Franciscan Well - Friar Weiss

Here is the full list of placements. Thanks to all of the breweries that entered beer and congratulations to the winners. I think this represents the most impartial and independently run beer competition in Ireland and I expect there will be even more entries next year.

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